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Holloway and Archway guard rails ripped out to make crossing road easier
Published: 6 April, 2012
by WILLIAM McLENNAN
PEDESTRIAN safety barriers were ripped out of pavements in Holloway and Archway this week under...
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‘Playground’ insults row at Islington Council
Published: 6 April, 2012
by ANDREW JOHNSON
A “BOORISH” Labour councillor has been reported to the Town Hall’s ethics watchdog for...
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'The Kiss' - Poetry in motion as Tufnell Park tube verse inspires
Published: 06 April 2012
by PETER GRUNER
A SHORT poem scribbled on a scruffy noticeboard at Tufnell Park tube station is providing spiritual...
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Thanks RBS – Bank staff are human!
Published: 6 April, 2012
WHO says bankers are all greedy hard-hearted monsters?
More than 100 volunteers from the much-maligned Royal Bank of...
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‘Youth violence rate in decline’
Published: 6 April, 2012
A SOFTY-SOFTLY approach rather than “kicking down doors” is helping to reduce youth violence, top cops told...
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Petition to allow dogs off the lead runs into opposition
Published: 06 April 2012
A CAMPAIGN to allow dogs off the lead at the northern end of Highbury Fields ran into opposition this week.
Dog walkers...
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Angry tenants demand ‘Hands off King Square’
Published: 6 April, 2012
by ANDREW JOHNSON
DOZENS of tenants confronted Town Hall bosses on Thursday over a scheme to build new homes on the site of...
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Frank Mackenzie's death ends quest to find brother’s killers
Published: 6 April, 2012
by DAVID ST GEORGE
FORMER union representative Frank Mackenzie returned to London last year hoping to find a clue to...
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Plea after attack on woman - Detectives want to question Charles McMullins, 27
Published` 06 April 2012
by WILLIAM McLENNAN
Police have issued an image of a man they want to question after a 36-year-old woman was left with a...
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It’s the war of the Tweets as Holloway by-election fight opens
Published: 06 April 2012
by ANDREW JOHNSON
NO sooner had young Tory Jonathan Edwards thrown his hat into the ring and taken to Twitter to campaign...
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Crime fears as PCSOs leave to become cops
Published: 6 April, 2012
by PETER GRUNER
ANTI-SOCIAL behaviour is threatening to spiral out of control in Islington following a reduction in Safer...
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New gallery aims to dispel myth of 'snobbery and elitism' in art
Published: 06 April 2012
by PETER GRUNER
A 24-year-old former business and marketing student has set her sights on dispelling the “snobbery...
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Olga Stores deli shutting down after 65 years
Published: 06 April 2012
by PETER GRUNER
A PIONEERING Italian food shop at Angel is to close after more than 65 years.
Customers of The Olga...
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Cyclist turns ’tec to recover stolen bike
Published: 06 April 2012
by PETER GRUNER
A CYCLIST who tracked down his stolen bike after police said they were too busy to help has called for a...
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A French chateau for artists to find their muse
Published: 06 April 2012
by ANDREW JOHNSON
MANY artists dream of finding isolation and peace so they can summon their muse and produce work of...
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Toy replaces donkey for stripped-back Palm Sunday
Published: 06 April 2012
by AMY SMITH
THERE may not have been a donkey but a child’s hobby horse made up for that as more than 60 worshippers...
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Mayville Community Centre’s Big Night Out
Published: 6 April, 2012
A BIG Night Out for disabled people – organised by themselves – is being staged later this month.
The event...
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Opera donation to the tune of £10k for King’s Head Theatre
Published: 06 April 2012
by PETER GRUNER
AN opera-loving “angel” has come to the aid of Islington’s financially strapped King...